Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 11:16:49 -0800 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> To: Adam Strohl <adams@digitalspark.net> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual Celeron + FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199911051916.LAA27152@mina.sr.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Nov 1999 13:54:53 GMT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911051353460.583-100000@nightfall.digitalspark.net>
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Adam Strohl <adams@digitalspark.net> wrote:
> I Agree totaly with this, disk is THE choke point for make world for my
> SMP system, must ... resist .. urge ... to ... buy ... SCSI ... hardware.
> :)
Are you using softupdates and DMA? While SCSI is great, you really
need multiple drives to take full advantage of SCSI. With your typical
1- or 2-drive system, IDE drives shouldn't be significantly slower than
SCSI.
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Darryl Okahata
darrylo@sr.hp.com
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